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No Mow, May…be
It was drizzling this morning as I stepped out to take the dog for her first stroll of the day, and for the first time in nearly six months I could tell that the lawn was starting to turn a familiar shade of green. That’s not an exaggeration, either. As recently as this past weekend
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A Good Life, Well-lived & Enjoyed Aloud
As I write these words the final month of the first year of this blog has arrived. It’s December. And after a mind-numbing and depressing 2020 I’ve been penning my thoughts and opinions here throughout 2021 to the tune of one hundred and seven thousand, three hundred and eighty three previously published words into two
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The Value to Comment
Readers may have noticed that I don’t make commenting available here. This is a conscious choice on my part to limit the conversations about these things that I write about to more open and public platforms and in doing so keep this blog something more personal and deliberately curated. I tend to lean towards the
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Backyard: Start Line
Sunday Runday and my usual social weekend run date has turned into a solo expedition from my backyard. But training calls, and has little respect for blips in the calendar like global pandemics and provincial lockdowns and excuses about being stuck in one’s own backyard. Knowing a convincing distance run (by which I really mean
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A Gift of Bread
Since the pandemic began I’ve been baking a lot of sourdough. In fact, on my way home over a year ago from my last day in the office and even as we transitioned into working-from-home mode, I stopped at the grocery store and restocked my flour supply. Then as I checked into my kitchen and